Senior API Platform Engineer - AWS Microservices, Hybrid

System One, Inc.; Lafayette (LA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

System One, Inc. is seeking a Senior API Platform Software Engineer to join an API Ecosystem team delivering backend services, APIs, and platform capabilities in a distributed AWS-based environment.

You will build and enhance API infrastructure and governance for enterprise-scale financial services applications. The role requires strong Java/Python development, API design experience, and extensive AWS/Kubernetes tooling.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on software development in Java and/or Python.
• Experience building RESTful APIs, backend services, and microservices at scale.
• Experience with AWS services (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, IAM, Route 53, CloudWatch).
• Experience with API management: Apigee OPDK, Apigee X, or Apigee Hybrid.
• Understanding API lifecycle: versioning, security, throttling, analytics.
• API security knowledge: OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, API keys.
• OpenAPI/Swagger; GraphQL a plus.
• CI/CD and DevOps: GitHub/GitLab, Terraform.
• JavaScript/TypeScript for supporting full stack/platform development.
• Containers/Kubernetes in AWS (ECS/EKS).
• Observability: OpenTelemetry, Splunk, CloudWatch.
• Load balancing, caching, high availability, resiliency, disaster recovery.
• Relational and NoSQL databases.
• Strong troubleshooting and quick learning in Agile/Scrum with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Java

Python

RESTful APIs

Distributed systems

CI/CD

OpenAPI/Swagger

GraphQL

OAuth 2.0 / JWT

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub/GitLab

JavaScript / TypeScript

Monitoring/Observability

OpenTelemetry

CloudWatch

Apigee (OPDK/X/Hybrid)

API security

Relational/NoSQL databases

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field

Tools

AWS (EC2, ECS, EKS)

Apigee OPDK/X/Hybrid

GitHub/GitLab

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes (ECS/EKS)

OpenTelemetry

Splunk/CloudWatch

OpenAPI/Swagger

Job description

System One, Inc. is seeking a Senior API Platform Software Engineer to join an API Ecosystem team delivering backend services, APIs, and platform capabilities in a distributed AWS-based environment.

You will build and enhance API infrastructure and governance for enterprise-scale financial services applications. The role requires strong Java/Python development, API design experience, and extensive AWS/Kubernetes tooling.